Map Book Gallery

See how fellow professionals are using GIS by viewing the following examples of their work.

Volume 23: GIS—Geography in Action

Sunnyside Emergency Operations Centre Map —The City of Calgary’s Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) uses the EOC Map Series as an initial point of contact to enable better-informed decisions for resource deployment and management during emergencies. The map series is used by eight of the city’s business units, as well as other levels of government and private and public industry.

Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

The Asia Pacific Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas —Recognizing that natural disasters are predominantly local issues, often with national, regional, or global impacts, the Pacific Disaster Center has developed the Asia Pacific Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas.

Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World

Calculating Wildfire Hazard Levels—Algebraic Raster Construction Using Spatial Analyst
ArcGIS Spatial Analyst was used to develop a raster grid layer predicting degrees of wildfire hazard levels within a western Colorado fire management zone. Colorado's West Zone wildfire management agencies tested electronic and paper versions of the project to anticipate fire behavior, safety concerns, and resource allocations during the 2005 wildfire season.

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

Sales Territory Alignment—Single District
The purpose of this analysis was to realign a sales organization with respect to the volume of sales expected in the area. Zip codes were assigned values based on customer sales within them. The reorganization optimally distributed expected sales potential.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

Modeling Typhoon Risk in South Korea
South Korea is the seventh largest insurance market in the world. Premiums as a percentage of the gross domestic product reached 10 percent for life and 3.2 percent for nonlife insurance in 2000.

Statistics predict that at least one typhoon will strike the Korean peninsula each year during August. Because of the high market penetration in South Korea, more sophisticated risk analysis is needed to determine typhoon risk. Learn more and see all the maps.

The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.

Published annually, each volume of the ESRI Map Book showcases a small portion of the work presented at the Map Gallery exhibition at the annual ESRI International User Conference.